Did you miss the part where LifeWise’s background-check providers keep quietly changing? 👀 Every time there is a scandal or controversy, there seems to be a new explanation, a new vendor name, or a missing FAQ…. And somehow parents and school boards are still supposed to accept: “They passed our background checks.” What?..… NO. That… Read More

Secular means these are children.They are at school to learn. 🚫Not to be pressured.🚫Not to be confused.🚫Not to be bullied.🚫Not to be told they are wrong, sinful, broken, excluded, or going to hell because of what their family believes; or doesn’t believe. Secular does not mean children cannot be religious. 🚨It means public schools do… Read More

🚨 They didn’t fail LifeWise’s background checks… They passed them. That is the part every parent, school board member, and superintendent needs to pay attention to. After SEA helped uncover that two former LifeWise employees and one volunteer had been connected to child-sex-crime cases, LifeWise responded with the same polished script: -Student safety is our… Read More

🚨UPDATE TO OUR PREVIOUS REPORTING:Kenneth E. Holycross III has now been indicted in Miami County on dozens of charges involving children under 13. WHIO reports the indictment includes 12 counts of rape, 5 counts of gross sexual imposition, 2 counts of attempted rape, 7 counts of sexual battery, 2 counts of grooming, and 2 counts… Read More

Juneteenth requires honest history. Period. We cannot say we honor Juneteenth while allowing the truth about slavery, racism, and the long fight for freedom to be softened, rewritten, or erased.And honest history is exactly what some people are trying to control. 👀 They usually don’t come right out and say, “We want to erase slavery.”… Read More

THIS is what “released time religious instruction” looks like in reality. Not in LifeWise’s glossy videos or their carefully scripted “character education” pitch. And definitely not in that clean legal theory where everything supposedly happens off campus and is totally separate from school.. 🙄😡 In practice. Day to day. All year long. 👉Behavior issues from… Read More

Yes. 👏🏻 And this applies directly to public schools. Public schools are not Christian schools. They are schools where Christian students are free to be Christian…AND every other student is free to be who they are too. That is religious freedom. What people are saying: Facebook User: Yes! Totally agree on both points. Facebook User:… Read More

🚨KENTUCKY PARENTS: THIS IS YOUR WARNING. LifeWise Academy is seeking expansion into Reidland, Kentucky and public records show this was already being discussed behind the scenes. In an email to McCracken County school leadership, a LifeWise program director wrote that her team had been “putting out feelers” to determine the next school to add. She… Read More

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“Kindergartners handling a crown of thorns. What could go wrong?Of course it’s from Patrick Henry LifeWise.” – Reported to SEA by a community member. 👀🤯😡🤦‍♀️ What people are saying: Secular Education Association: This is not the first LifeWise activity we’ve seen that raises basic safety questions. If your local program is using props, reenactments, obstacle-course… Read More

If you’re going to go on and on about “250 years of freedom,” then say the whole thing: RELIGIOUS freedom. 👏🏻 Because the “schools used to read the Bible” crowd loves telling the first half of the story, then disappearing before the lesson gets learned. 👀 Yes, early American public schools often read the Bible.… Read More

🌈Pride Month reminder: Uncloseted Media reported that LifeWise teaches children that “anything different from this kind of romantic relationship between a husband and a wife is sin.” So let’s be very clear about what that means in a public school community, because that message does not stay neatly inside the LifeWise classroom…It follows these kids… Read More

We’ll be on WVXU-FM 917 again tonight at 8 p.m. SEA joined Cincinnati Public Radio’s Cincinnati Edition today to talk about LifeWise, child safety, background checks, and the oversight gaps parents have been warning about for years. LifeWise declined to come on.We didn’t. Listen tonight at 8. https://www.wvxu.org/show/cincinnati-edition/2026-06-15/lifewise-staff-and-volunteer-charged-with-child-sex-crimes View original post on Facebook Read More

LifeWise keeps telling communities the same thing:“It’s separate from the school.”“No taxpayer money is used.”“Public schools just release the kids.” Okay. Then why do public school buses keep showing up in the records? SEA reviewed board minutes, contracts, emails, and transportation documents from multiple districts, and what we found blows a massive hole in the… Read More

Tune in to WVXU-FM 917 Cincinnati Edition today at 12:00 PM EST. Secular Education Association will join host Lucy May and WOSU Public Media reporter George Shillcock to discuss LifeWise Academy, the former staff and volunteer recently connected to charges involving crimes against children, and the urgent need for real oversight when outside religious programs… Read More